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   tran·scrip·tion

   /tran(t)ˈskripSHən/

   noun

   • 1. a written or printed representation of something.
   • ▪ the action or process of transcribing something: "the funding covers transcription of nearly illegible photocopies"
   • ▪ an arrangement of a piece of music for a different instrument, voice, or number of these: "a transcription for voice and lute"
   • ▪ a form in which a speech sound or a foreign character is represented.
   • ▪ the process by which genetic information represented by a sequence of DNA nucleotides is copied into newly synthesized molecules of RNA, with the DNA serving as a template.

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French, or from Latin transcriptio(n-), from the verb transcribere (see transcribe).

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